I held off writing my Deus Ex: Human Revolution opinions until I'd finished the game, just in-case the gameplay got tiresome, or the story wore thin, but no. This game is a MASTERPIECE. This isn't a word I use too often, but it's deserved in this instance. There's not many games on the market where the developers leave the style in which you tackle their game to your discretion. That's where the beauty lies!

Games like Hitman have done it previously, and although neither Hitman nor Deus Ex are by any means perfect, the fact they let you approach the game as if you are living and breathing the experience blows my mind. My friend and I started this game on separate consoles around the same time, he chose the gung-ho approach where as I went the stealth route. Each night we compared our experience and they really did differ.

I completed this game not killing a soul (minus the mandatory bosses) and only using 8 darts in the rifle, an accomplishment I'm proud of. Now though, even after beating this 30+ hour epic, I'm compelled to go back and start again taking a slightly more direct route (probably the old silenced pistol kill etc) and who knows, one day I might even go in all guns blazing.

The simple fact that after beating a 30hr game I want to go back and tweak my approach speaks volumes though, the game was such a welcome surprise for me and came out of nowhere. Even with Batman, Assassins Creed, Saints Row III & many others on the radar this year, I think this will take A LOT of beating for my Game of the Year.